Items Related to the the Protection/Practice Legend

Ambush, a
shelter formed by two trees or shrubs whose branches intermingle, is a setting
repeatedly occurring in myth, giving the explanation for various ritualistic properties-emetic
frames, hoops, pokers, prayersticks, wood samples. A hero, hoping to shoot a mountain
sheep or other animal he did not recognize as a god, lay behind the 'ambush trees,'
but when the animal appeared, was numb until it had passed. The animal deity,
revealing himself, taught the hero ceremonial lore?